VOL. LX.
INDIANAPOLIS, JUNE 3, 1905.
NO. 22
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ADVANTAGES   OF PURE BRED OR   HIGH
GRADE   LIVE STOCK.
1st Premium.—A great source of loss
to tin- fanner iu keeping and feeding
scrub stock, putting feed and care into an
animal tlint will only bring a low price
when finished.
Tho hog has been justly accredited "the
mortgage lifter." No other domestic animal 1ms as great a capacity for transforming so varied air assortment of the
products of the fann into a merchantable
article as the hog. Many farmers now
raise and feed practically pure bred animals, others hnve grades with a percentage of pure blood iu their veins, yet
many still raise the old-fashioned elm-
peeleis. Good animals can bo bought so
treasonable that there is no excuse whatever for any fanner breeding and feeding
mongrels.
The Wisconsin Kxperiment Station
made a test crossing a pure bred Poland
China male upon sows of the scrub or
razorback type, and used those half blood
pigs in a comparative test with pigs from
a scrub sire, with dams of same grade as
the dams of the pigs from the pure bred
sire. In this test, it cost CVi oents to produce a pound of meat on the half blood
Poand Chinas, or \\/_ cents per pound in
favor of the half blood pigs.
Scrub cattle should not be kept either.
Seek to produce quality and not so much
quantity. There may come a time, when
the producer may claim he cannot produce this high type of beef without incurring a loss, ibut when such conditions
exist, there will be found a corresponding
low price in the scnib and low grade beef
market. Also when the market is on a
decline, the lower classes of beef animals
feel the decline first and to a greater extent. There is no greater cost attached
to producing high grade beef than low
grade beef, and the former is much more
remunerative.
Let's get into line, and produce the kind
of  product  in     demand.    Type    is  being
studied as never lx'fone, and ere long the
effects will be felt greatly in the markets.
Kosciusko Co. M. A.
Xo. 484, June 17.—Tell how to put up
pickles,  catsup   and  otlier  relishes.
So. 485, June 24.—Why should the
farmer protect the birds? What kinds are
most  valuable?    How  attract  them?
Premiums of $1, 75 cents and 50 cents
are given for the best, second and third
best articles for the Experience Department each week. Manuscript should be
sent direct to the Indiana Fanner Company and should reach us one week before date of publication.
TWO  TELL-TALE  PICTURES.
Big Brother Dick is very foml of teasing his little sister May, though he is very-
good to her, usually.
May is always in a hurry, but, strange
to say, she is almost always late.
One day Dick showed her two kodak
pictures of two little girls. They don't
look a bit alike, and yet both of them
were May herself! Dick had "snapped"
them with his camera.
One picture he had labeled "Little By-
and-By;" the other was "Little-on-Time."
In the first picture May's hair was rumpled and flying, her shoes untied, her torn
white apron soiled and unbuttoned, and
her face a little railroad map of scowls,
it looked so worried.
"Why, I look like a tramp!" exclaimed
May, when she saw this picture.
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committing  it,   thau  which  nothing  could
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Width including veranda 79 ft. C in., depth including veranda 31 ft. G in. Cellar 0 ft. (Jin. high; first story 9 ft. and second story 9 ft. C in. Foundation brick
vails and piers; first and second stories balcony fronts, gable and roofs shingles.
All walls and ceilings of first and second stories covered with hard pine ceiling, with
wooden cornices in. all rooms. Yellow pine flooring, trimming and stair case. Interior woodwork finished with varnish. Rooms, closets, etc. shown in lloor plans.
Altic floored but not finished, space there for threo rooms. Cost N. Y. prices $."?,-
-M, including plumbing, range and heater Can be built in Central West for two to
three thundred dollars less. Plans copyrighted by the Co-operative Building Plan
Association, New York.
"I snapped it the day you played with
Allie. in the maple-grove, and didn't get
tidied in time to ride witli papa to the
train," explained Dick.
"And this picture I took the next day,
when you'd made up your mind not to be
late again, and so got ready in time for
Lou's party," said Dick.
"I'll never be late again, Dick," declared May, "for I don't want to be that horrid-looking By-and-By, so please burn her
up."
Aud May keeps Little On-Time's picture in her room, fastened in her looking-
glass to remind her to be always prompt.
So Little On-Time, with her shining
curls, and dainty dress, and neat little
"ties," everything -alwut her"just exactly
right," still smiles down on May.
And though Lou anrl Allie think it's
strange that May keeps that picture of
herself in her mirror, May never told the
secret till she told it to ine—Primary
Plans.
ARBITRATION VS. WAR.
Surely the most militant person cannot
doubt that our present army and navy are
moro than ample for our defense, as no
country in the world is in the least danger of   provoking a    war   with us.    It is
therefore not unreasonable to ask that the
preparations for wars which can never
happen, exci>pt by our own fault, should
cease, and that we should devote ourselves again to our true mission, Uiat of
commanding by our example free institutions to nations; and if we have any surplus treasure let us expend it in lightening the expenses and the burdens of those
whose days are given to toil and into
whose lives enters far too little of brightness and joy.
Aibove all, we must demand that every
controversy in which our country becomes
involved must be peaceably settled either
by agreement with our adversary or by
some form ot honorable and impartial arbitration. Even if tlie controversy is with
one of the great powers, though great
powers now very seldom go to war with
each other, we must insist upon this
mourse; but if the controversy is with a
small country incapable of asserting its
rights in anns against us—and it is chiefly
against such that great nations now wage
war—it is far more necessary for our honor and oiir dignity not to use our superior
strength to refuse ouradversary an appeal
to a disinterested tribunal, for such a refusal would Ik; a confession of wrong done
to a country ineapable-of punishing us for
A SELFISH MAN.
lie   regarded   his  children  as.nuisance.
He did all his courting before marriage.
lie  never  talked  over  his affairs  with
his wife.
lie doled out his money to his wife as
if to a beggar.
He lookeil down on his wife as an inferior being.
He never dreamed that there were two
sides to marriage.
He had one set of manners for home
nnrl  another for society.
He never dreamed that his wife needed
praise and compliments.
He thought his wife should spend all
her  time  doing  housework.
He never made concession to his wife's .
judgment,  even in* unimportant matters.
He thought Hire marriage vow had
made him his wife's master, instead of
her partner.
He thought he had a right to smoke
and chew tobacco and dring liquor and be
as Ijoorish and brutal to his family as he
chose, regardless of the effect on them.
Surely such a man needs regenerating to
be lit to live with anybody.—Word and
Work.
"LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION.
"Lead ns not into temptation" is a part
of the Lord's prayer which the narrator
often murmurs. To tell the story clearly
of howhe came to do he must use thefirst
person. It was midnight, March 3 , 1899.
and Benjamin Harrison was to be inaugurated at noon the following day. Just
after all the clocks had struck aud claimed twelve, I met Jim Coit Spocner, United States Senator from Wisconsin, iu
the- Senate restaurant, and said: "Senator, I must know whether or not Uncle
Jerry Rusk is going into Harrison's cabinet."
"You want to print that in the St. Paul
Globe eight hours before the inaugeration
and I wouldn't tell you If I could!" was
the reply.
"Well, to-morrow afternoon, in the
midst of the crowd, I oan't get to you, ami
1 must telegraph something to the Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin. What shall
I tell them?"
"It is dangerous for you, and not fbr
me, ' said .Senator Spooner, "but I will
trust you. Now you telegraph the Globe
that I said that, while Senator Sawyer
and I are sanguine, we can't say whether
Governor Rusk will be a member of tlie
cabinet, or not. To-morrow afternoon
you may tell the Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin that, since the inauguration of
President Harrison, I said that we have
just been assured that Governor Rusk
will be secretary of agriculture."
Well, the temptation was great. Any
Ciiuago newspaper, particularly the
Times, would have given $100 for that
paragraph, and I needed the money. Two
weeks later, when we chanced to meet in
the Senate lobby, Senator Spooner said:
"You didn't see tlie club that I held over
your head in that Rusk matter, did you?"
.\fter receiving a negative reply, he
said: "Well, I watched those papers;
r.nd, if you had broken faith with me, I
thould have gone to overy senator, Demo-
ciat as well as Republican, aud told all
of them that you were untrustworthy, and
yor'.r days of usefulness as a newsgather-
ev would have been gone. As it is, however, I am doing you somie good, here and
there, by bragging ou you whenever I can
get an opportunity."